
Sometime this is not easy. Sometimes it does not seem so simple. Sometimes trauma or wounds creep in and linger or even alter our perception of things moving forward.
I cannot tell you the solution when you get stuck. We are all coming from different experiences and moving down different paths. I don't have easy click-bait solutions. All I have is what has helped me on my journey. All I have is the belief that I have a choice, not in every detail of life, but in how I respond to each detail.
Driving down the road this morning there was a contrail that appeared to go straight up. Even as my mind was rationalizing it was the angle of approach between the plane and us, my daughter was calling out "look a rocket!" She said, "that plane turned into a rocket and went straight up tot the sky!" I began to tell her that a plane (or most planes) cannot travel vertically, my physics mind kicking into gear. But then I thought of the beautiful symbolism of what she had said. It decided to be something else and so it changed. Simple. It wanted to shoot for the stars... so it did.
Isn't this idea exactly what we want our children to believe? They can be anything. Shoot for the stars. Change can be simple. For that matter, isn't this what we want for ourselves?
I think it all starts with what we choose to take away from each moment. In this moment I choose to let the logic and physics fall away, not because it isn't true or because I want to live in some mythical reality; I choose to let it fall away because I already know the reality and so the message I can gain from this is symbolic. I choose to embrace the symbolic message.
I'm grateful for these sweet moments with my children when they blow my mind back open. I'm grateful to deliver a small physics lesson then shift to the imaginative. I'm grateful for "what if". I'm grateful to be learning to embrace change. I'm grateful for the contrail this morning and the symbolism it provided. I'm grateful for lifes little messages. I'm grateful to focus on the take away and the beauty of gratitude.
What is your take away today? What messages were offered? How did you choose to interpret them?
May today remind us the power of our minds. May we choose to interpret life in ways that pick us up and move us forward. Have a beautiful day!